'Israel can reach any bed in Tehran, but makes no effort to bring back 50 hostages'

Gadi Moses, a former hostage, was interviewed on Wednesday morning on the "Seder Yom" program on Kan Reshet Bet with Liat Regev. He shared his deep sorrow over the fact that the hostages have been pushed aside during the ongoing campaign against Iran.

"It made my heart ache and my soul darken. Israel knows where every Revolutionary Guard and every Mujahideen is, which bed they sleep in – we know how to strike them with surgical precision," he said. "But on October 7, we were abandoned and humiliated. Right under our noses, they pulled these tricks on us."

"This war hasn’t given me any sense of national pride. On the contrary, it has only intensified the anger within me – knowing that we can reach every bed in Tehran but aren’t willing to make any effort to rescue 50 precious lives still rotting in the tunnels of Gaza," Moses added.

Gadi is a man of peace, who doesn’t believe Hamas can be completely defeated. "You make peace with enemies," he said. "We’re not going to take them (the Gazans) in – they are two million people. We need to find a formula like the one we found with Egypt: a peace that’s cold as ice – but still peace."

According to Moses, Israel must make both sides understand that both Israelis and Palestinians are here to stay.

In his view, Hamas cannot be defeated ideologically, and therefore, he appealed to members of the cabinet: "We are sacrificing living people – soldiers – on the altar of Messianic beliefs or complete ignorance of what the human soul is."

Moses, who survived 482 days in captivity under Islamic Jihad, spoke about the moments that gave him strength, including repeatedly singing the Israeli national anthem, HaTikvah.

"I sang 'Our hope is not yet lost,' for the sake of my soul. They looked at me like I was crazy, but for me, my hope was not lost."

After approximately one year in captivity – cut off from everyone – Moses heard his son’s voice on the radio for the first time. It was a moment he will never forget, the first time he shed a tear since Oct. 7, ,2023.

"It hit me. The only time I cried – because it had been a year, and suddenly I heard my son was alive, and he said, ‘We are doing everything we can to save you.’ It was overwhelming."

Finally, Moses called for immediate action to return all the hostages.

"There can be no healing without their return. This is simply a disaster. No one knows how long it will take them to recover. We need to think about how to bring everyone back – without selection. The families’ nerves are already frayed. This issue must return to the table until they are all back."